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The Tinted Lens of the Ii Side ―― The Eleventh Month of Ansei 5: From the Record of Inquiries into Mito Affairs to the Evil Hand Reaching Mito
The eleventh month of Ansei 5 (1858). A bundle of rumor records had been placed at Ii Naosuke's side. The title was "Record of Inquiries into Mito Affairs." -
Kyoto in the Second Month of Bunkyū 3 ―― The Summoning of the Daimyo and the Proclamation of Expelling the Barbarians
On the sixteenth day of the second month of Bunkyū 3 (1863), at the hour of six-half in the morning (seven o'clock). Matsudaira Yoshinaga, holder of the office of chief of state affairs, went out… -
Three Hundred Years of a Residence, Ended by One Document ―― The Confiscation of Bannerman Residences and the People of Edo on the Sixteenth Day of the Seventh Month of Keiō 4
The sixteenth day of the seventh month of Keiō 4 (1868). It had been a little over three months since Edo Castle was handed over. The new government issued an order to confiscate the residences of… -
A Shot Through the Throat ―― How Ninagawa Arata Recorded Kawaji Toshiakira’s Suicide on the Fifteenth Day of the Third Month of Keiō 4 (1868)
On the night of the fifteenth day of the third month of Keiō 4 (1868). In a residence in Edo's Banchō, an old man rose from his bed. He was paralyzed on one side of his body. He bathed, put on formal… -
The Four Walls Are All Full of the Expel-the-Barbarians Party ―― In the Fifth Month of Bunkyū 3 (1863), Tokugawa Yoshinobu’s Journey to Edo and Submission of His Resignation
Tsuchiyama post station in Ōmi. Several assassins attacked the inn where Okabe Suruga no kami was staying. Suruga no kami escaped the danger. But Tokugawa Yoshinobu, worried about what lay ahead,… -
The Whale-Sea Drunken Lord Enters the Capital ―― Yamauchi Toyoshige and the Small Bridge over the Takase River, First Month of Bunkyū 3
The tenth day of the first month of Bunkyū 3 (1863). A steamship lay at anchor off Shinagawa. The Taihō-maru.
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